Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Cute Dog Photos! They’re inviting folks to submit their own cute dog photos. They’re inviting folks to submit their own cute dog photos. Cute animals rule the social web! The example below is from the Monterrey Bay Aquarium and one of their most popular videos. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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OCTOBER 23, 2008

I've been doing some research on how to present a successful webinar, and thought I'd share what I've learned. For folks who are unfamiliar with webinars, they are online classes where participants watch the speaker's presentation on the web, while listening to it via their phone. Below are the webinar presenting tips I found.

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MARCH 25, 2009

Flickr Photo: akakumo Yesterday, I had the privilege of sharing the stage at an event on cloud computing hosted by the Salesforce.com/Foundation , Facebook, and Google. This example is inspired by The Numerati. They all had great real-life examples of the challenges and joys of the cloud. .

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At #MFOM14, I participated as a speaker, leading one workshop, Email Marketing to Support Year-Round Online Fundraising , and as a panelist for the session, Visual Communication: Create pictures, videos, and presentations quickly, easily, and affordably. Let that inform your decisions on what channel(s) to use to reach your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2011

Flickr Photo by wurges. Whenever I teach a workshop or give a presentation, I ask the audience the question above and jot it down on a 3×5 card. For example were you the first or only one to do something? Here’s a few good examples of Twitter Elevator pitches. Here’s one for Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2011

Note from Beth: Last week, I wrote about SoSomeThing.Org as an example of a nonprofit with a “data-driven culture.&# What initially caught my eye was the above presentation from George Weiner. prezi I presented in August. Here is a rough narrative to accompany my ‘What does the data say?’

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Flickr Photo by lyzadanger. I added this link to my nonprofit content curation list and discovered some conversation from other curators, including this one from presentation from Steve Rubel from June. For example, Facebook produces 30 billion pieces of content a day. Hubspot points to a recent study from Bit.ly

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MAY 20, 2009

" Flickr Photo Download: Twitter trending topics - Anatomy of a hashtag as trending topic from Meg Pickard on Flickr. Have you seen hashtags (#) being used and curious what they mean - maybe for #FollowFriday for example. If you like charts for understanding trending and relationships, this is a great one!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

Photos: I rounded up the photos and screen captured important tweets and put them into Flickr here. Here’s a couple of techniques that I try to use every time I do a workshop, presentation, keynote, or other instruction. For example, for the above exercise, I had the online audience take an online poll.

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MARCH 31, 2007

Below, I have picked a few select photos: the rest are on my Flickr page. Salman Ahmed got the crowd pumping as before, and then we met our four rockstar presenters (well, at least one is literally a rock star, and the other three have a pretty good claim to the status): Jeff Skoll, Peter Gabriel, Sally Osberg and Muhammad Yunus.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas (LOC) Originally uploaded by The Library of Congress About a month ago, the Library of Congress put two sets of photographs (about 3000 images total) up on Flickr. Flickr is a photo-sharing site (learn more here ). So maybe this isn't "LOC Rocks Flickr."

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This is an example of a community using video to capture the inspiration inherent in its nonprofit mission. This five-photo Flickr submission presents a compelling visual narrative and tells a great story. Its photo story is extremely powerful and highly shareable. Honorable Mentions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Flickr Photo by Yung Tsai. This informative post is based on a recent webinar presented by the Ad Council provides an overview of how to understand the return on your time investment. Or, if you’d like to watch the entire presentation or download the presentation slides. By Sacha Evans. Here are our crib notes.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I think this is a hard concept for many to agree with because of the process by which the social media tools are most often adopted in organizations: for example, Jane really likes taking pictures and usually posts them to Flickr (an online photo sharing website) as a way to store them, sort them, and share them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I did some live demonstrations including Twitter and Flickr. I posted a photo of them on Flickr and asked people on Twitter to share why they thought it was a valuable. We got 100 comments 5 minutes from nonprofit and other professionals sharing why they thought it was valuable.

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MAY 26, 2011

Adding tags to content, whether blog post; video; photo; and so on, helps content creators organize content and, more importantly, helps your intended audience find it on the Internet. Tags can also be used to find resources such as photos, slide presentations, and articles to reference for use on your site. You're It!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2008

My Flickr Photos. My Flickr Photos. I'm preparing for a couple of presentations this month for different audiences. I'm going to talk about how nonprofits are using flickr, social networks, and twitter. Also looking for any examples of health So, as I prep this talk - any thoughts come to mind?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Flickr Photo by John K. For example, there are many differences between US and UK English. Do you ever write a social media update in formal language, the same as you might use in a report or presentation? Here’s some good tips when your network is global. Hands up who’s got a Twitter follower from Japan?

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

Also, Defenders of Wildlife is listed as an “Example of Excellence” in the book. Whether we like it or not, information overload is a part of our culture now, and the design and tone of your nonprofit’s website need to take this shift in communication seriously and present your website accordingly. Simplicity is key.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Flickr Photo by hanspoldoja. For example, I sat in on the excellent breakout on Beneficiary Feedback with CEP’s Youth Truth and the Hogg Foundation (Hook ‘em Horns, my MBA alma mater). The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

Photo by SMEXbeirut. Use participant examples of part of your presentation or have them share. Photo by SMEXbeirut. Each group was told to use words, text, audio, or video and then we presented to the whole group. Photo by SMEXbeirut. In the above video, Naeema Zarif. explains the how and why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Flickr Photo by PCSO900. The Ocean Conservancy is dedicated to the goal of a healthy ocean by increasing public awareness of ocean issues and bringing significant changes to the way oceans are managed. The first step she took was to make a presentation to staff about what she had learned.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2007

as an inital example), Kevin Carey of HumanITy invited Hiroshi Kawamura, the new President of the DAISY Consortium and me to lunch on Brighton beach. For example, disabled people are very concerned about access to education and employment. When teacher is present, it's about textbook access.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Flickr Photo by Lululemon. For example, if someone cares enough to add an app from the Red Cross that publishes an update whenever they give blood, it’s that much more important for us to thank and reward that donor once they actually show up at the blood center.” And, that is how they measure success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2012

Flickr Photo - Of Small Things. I was in a random hotel ballroom in Denver, ready to present on the importance of social media to over 60 social media managers from LGBT choirs around the world. But I was also asked to present on Social Media and the Arts at this “Gay Chorus Olympics.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Andy Beal. A great example is our recently completed evaluation of goodWORKSconnect, our nonprofit network and resource center found here. She shared some examples of how organizations are being transparent. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Image from Flickr by Xurble. Include photos of the donors or the company logo whenever possible. In both social media profiles his publications are mostly about charity: water, including anecdotes about the team, photos from the field and retweets from the official charity: water account. Harrison has over 61.5k

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2008

Photo by Feast of Fools. It's been over a month since my trip to Australia where I presented and facilitated workshops at the ConnectingUp Conference. I, of course, loved the flickr competition idea and suggested that she consider a modest outcome and learning experiment. Freedom from Oil Flickr Photo Contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2009

View more presentations from kanter. Today I had the pleasure of giving a presentation for the Packard Foundation board of directors to provide a brief report on how I spent my time as Visiting Scholar and share some insights about social media and the nonprofit sector. among many other awesome examples & possibilities).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2008

Flickr photo by Terry Bain. I was searching for the perfect illustration for "five" in flickr and since you all know how much I like dogs , I couldn't resist this photo. I like the framework that How To Develop a Social Media Plan by Mashable presents. I found 3 really good planning templates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Flickr Photo by Jek in the Box. View more presentations from YMCA of Metro Chicago. Geoff Livingston keeps the social media measurement conversation rolling with this great question about what to measure … Flickr Photo by Jek in the Box We launched the Zoetica Salon this week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Winner of the Creative Commons 2006 Photo Schwag Contest I believe in setting my content free. My photos and blog posts have traveled around the world! I still sometimes see rather blank expressions when I ask about turning to CC licensed resources to find photos. The presentation itself is a remix of a remix.

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JULY 14, 2011

For example, I joined Google + on Monday and spent almost all of my social networking/marketing budget for the week in one day! I'm more present with each activity because I've established that it's important, and budgeted the time to do it. Flickr photo Time Flies.* Check out my call for submissions for details.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

I’m gathering my thoughts to start putting together my slides and presentation and wanted to stop for reflection and sharing. If you share feedback or examples that make their way, I’ll certainly give you credit. Photo credit: Flickr Rhys’s Piece Is ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Flickr Photo by ESML. For example, the Humane Society uses social media primarily for customer service, while Global Giving uses it to drive fundraising. Reporting Social To Stakeholders: Guest Post by Meg Biallis. Lewis explained that one of the Humane Society’s board members used to work at AOL.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Flickr Photo by TheeErin. When they create an exhibit, they pick the best examples and put them together in a new and exciting way — the institution lends it support to give the works visibility. The museum itself does not create the art, but puts into a context and connects with a broader number of people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2006

From one of my favorite edtech blogger, Alan Levine (fellow lab lover) comes this Flickrtation - using flickr for a presentation. Here's what they say about the this new genre This presention is being completely delivered as a flickr photoset. I really like the use of flickr for presentations instead of powerpoint.

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